#pseudoscorpion — Public Fediverse posts
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@colinburgess @stojg Ah, that insane photo. I've seen that before. I expect that weasel was probably about as freaked out as the woodpecker.
Here's another moth hitch-hiker from the Boyle where I found my springtail. We often get pseudoscorpions riding in on the moths.
This moth had the misfortune of having a pseudoscorpion hanging onto its face.
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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Things I found under a polypore.
A single shelf fungus can support a community of organisms--living in and on it. Here I found three beetles and a pseudoscorpion. The very tiny rove beetle (genus Gyrophaena) and shining fungus beetle (genus Scaphisoma) are dependent on fungi. The larger beetle is a clown beetle (genus Platysoma)--they live under bark and feed on fly and beetle larvae.
#biodiversity #beetles #insects #macrophotography #fungi #polypore #pseudoscorpion #ecology #nature
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Tiny #roundworms carve out unique parasitic niche inside #pseudoscorpion's protective covering https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tiny-roundworms-unique-parasitic-niche.html
Ectoparasitic nematodes developing in the integument of a Baltic amber pseudoscorpion https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2341848
"In a parasitic first, a Baltic #amber specimen has revealed that millions of years ago, tiny worms known as #nematodes were living inside of and feeding on the outer protective layer of #pseudoscorpions."
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I (badly) photographed this (currently identified) #Noctuidae species in #Merimbula #NSW. It was only when I transferred the images to my laptop that I saw the #pseudoscorpion crawling away - presumably it arrived by phoresis on the #moth - and how attractive the small beetle (#Staphylinidae) is with its pearly elytra.
Sorry not to have got a closer look at the pseudoscorpion - I love them so much.
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Don't you hate it when you pop down to your favourite flower for a refreshing sip of nectar, only to get a pseudoscorpion stuck to your face?
Freeloading floral hitchhikers!
Student Dustin Lamont found this pseudoscorpion attached to the probscis of the native NZ moth Pseudocoremia lupinata, on our ecology field trip to the Boyle Outdoor Education Centre in the Southern Alps last week.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/198463770
#LinconUniversityNZ #insects #phoresy #pseudoscorpion #arachnid #nz #nature
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I was looking through my photos from my run yesterday and looked closer at this photo of a NZ large hoverfly. It has a #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride on its foot!
The Common Naturalist has an article diving into the biology of pseudoscorpions and their habit of hitching a ride on other insects. Evidence from fossil amber shows that they've been doing this for at least 44 million years.
https://commonnaturalist.com/2021/05/14/hitchhiking-pseudoscorpions/
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There are few soil organisms more wonderful than Pseudoscorpions, it's always a joy to find one when I'm out with my camera!
This stout little murder machine is a compost chernes (Pselaphochernes scorpioides), found on decaying leaves in an open compost heap.
#MacroPhotography #SoilFauna #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #MesoFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology
